The Honeycombs shot to No.1 in the UK, and many other countries, in 1964 with ‘Have I the Right’, helped by maverick producer Joe Meek and the songwriting-management team of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley.

The group were famous for having a girl drummer in Honey Lantree, who sported a then- fashionable beehive hairdo. Her brother John was on bass, Alan Ward played lead guitar, and Dennis D’Ell handled the lead vocals.

The stomping sound was achieved by Meek augmenting Honey’s drumming by getting members of the group to stamp on the stairs of his studio. He placed microphones attached with bicycle clips under the stairs to capture the effect.

The Honeycombs had other hits in the UK with ‘Is It Because’. ‘Something Better Beginning’ and ‘That’s The Way’, but they enjoyed other chart successes in places like Scandinavia, Japan and Australia.